Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-29
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE RED FLAG OF ANARCHY
Again Waving Its Fol-
lowers To Violence.
THE WHOLE WEST ice BOUND.
A Novel Suit Brought
Against Lolita.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH VERY MAD.
The Harvard Eleven LIN
The Press.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH VERY MAD.
NE AMERICAN FLAG PULLED OUT

THE AMERICAN FLAG PULLED OUT
AT q Great Meeting of Anarchists i'm
Cooper UnfOn-Fiery Language by
Followers of the Red Flag.
New YoRK, Nov. 28.-Cooper Unions
great hall was filed tonight when mass
meeting was held by the German federation
of trades in memory of the executed An
archists. The stage was decorated in black
and red. Portraits of Spies and his assO-
eiAtes draped in black were displayed. The
American flag was not visible. The chair
man sat in a chair upholstered in red. A
band played dirge and the Marsellaise, but
no American music. Anarchistic literature
was industriously hawked about by men and
boys. The police were not to be seen, but
there were abundant reserves near by and
detectives mingled with the audience. Ed
ward Goldsmith presided. The Socialist
Sangerbund rendered in German Engel's
dying song, "The Weavers" Sergiue E.
Schevitch, who was editor of the defunct
Leader, the Socialist organ, was the principal
speaker. Waving his hand to check the ap-
plause he said the occasion was not one
for applause or weeping. It was a time to
think and to prepare for action, time to
ask how these men 1.-THE Anarchists) lived.
They lived with one idea and like heroes
died. The vermin that murdered them were
too cowardly to let them live. A quarter of
a century ago John Brown, native Aneri-
can, was lynched and four years later half
the nation was marching on with his soul.
The majority of the people do not SEQ.
Much of the terrible responsibility
rests on the press. (Hisses.) Mr..
Schevitch said the United States was
the only country on the face of the
globe where the press attempted to influence
the outcome of criminal trials. In all other
countries the press silently let justice take it's
course He Denounced the newspapers as
despicable towards, one and all. Continuing
the speaker said: "Do you want to know the
names of the foreigners in this countrys They
are Jay Gould, the Vanderbilts, the Russell
Sages. The foreigners are not the Anarchists.
The foreign element who have nothing in
kind with the people are the capitalists.
They control our politics with their money
and have disgraced our honor and liberty.
Their cry was law and order is for their own
protection, for the protection of their
stolen wealth. The execution in Chi
cago will forever be handed down
as the worst crime in your history.
have placed themselves in line with the
hangman. The object Of the tragedy was
to intimidate the advance workers in the
labor movement. There was no other cause
for the murder. You have heard 1t said
that the Anarchists do not belong to this
country. They do not need to come under
its flag. They have a flag of their
own-the red flag. What does
this red flag mean? it means
the blood of humanity. It means to
put stop to the shedding of blood. 1t
means to put stop to the conditions of
those who work but cannot enjoy and those
who do not work and do enjoy. There is
blood On that flag, the blood of thousands
and millions slaughtered for that flag. It is
in the blood of the victims
of the militia in Illinois and other
States. If that flag is dangerous
gentlemen of the press, that danger has been
created by the gentlemen who employ you,
your own bosses. Let us stand to-
gether. Let us be more fiery in our language
than before. Let US blow off the Anarchists
cry throughout the world. 1t is our flag, we
will raise it, we will carry it through
your streets. The time is not far
distant when national monument will be
raised to the men murdered in Chicago"
Resolutions were passed in which those
present pledged themselves to support the
widows and orphans of the hanged Chicago
Anarchists.